2021 Greek protests

2021 Greek protests
Date4 February 2021 – March 2021
Location
Greece
Caused by
Goals
Methods
Resulted inProtests contained
  • Kerameus-Chrisochoidis Law passed and partially implemented
  • Koufontinas' hunger strike ended[4]
Parties
Lead figures

No centralized leadership

This article is part of a series about
Kyriakos Mitsotakis
  • Political offices
  • Leader of the Opposition
  • Prime Minister of Greece
First term
Second term
  • Elections

The 2021 Greek protests broke out in response to a proposed government bill that would allow police presence on university campuses for the first time in decades,[2] for which opposition groups accused the government of taking advantage of the COVID-19 lockdown to impose increasingly authoritarian measures.[6] Protests intensified in response to the hunger strike of the prisoner Dimitris Koufontinas, a former member of terrorist organization 17N, who had started the strike in December, demanding his transfer to a different prison after he had been forcibly relocated to a maximum-security facility in central Greece,[3] as well as issues relating to police brutality and specifically the DELTA Force motorcycle police.[8]

The prime minister condemned the opposition parties as having "exploited lockdown fatigue", which he blamed for the frequent rallies.[9]

  1. ^ "Next challenge to implement law on campus security, says Kerameus". Ekathimerini. 10 August 2019. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Greek students, teachers protest planned education reform". Associated Press. 4 February 2021. Archived from the original on 6 February 2021. Retrieved 14 March 2021.
  3. ^ a b c Kitsantonis, Niki (3 March 2021). "Protests and Vandalism Follow Hit Man's Hunger Strike". New York Times. Athens. Archived from the original on 14 March 2021. Retrieved 14 March 2021.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference StrikeEnd was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ Ν. Σμύρνη: Νέα πορεία από τη νεολαία ΣΥΡΙΖΑ στις 18:00 μαζί με τους "Πάνθηρες" του Πανιωνίου
  6. ^ a b "Protest gets heated ahead of campus policing vote". Athens: Associated Press. 10 February 2021. Archived from the original on 12 February 2021. Retrieved 14 March 2021.
  7. ^ "Οι γειτονιές ανήκουν στους ανθρώπους τους, όχι στην αστυνομία. Το #ΜέΡΑ25 είναι εκεί". Twitter. Retrieved 2023-03-09.
  8. ^ "Greece violence: Officers injured in police brutality protests". BBC News. 2021-03-09. Archived from the original on 2021-03-13. Retrieved 2021-03-15.
  9. ^ Gatopoulos, Derek (12 March 2021). ""Lockdown fatigue" blamed for fueling mass protests". Athens: Associated Press. Archived from the original on 16 March 2021. Retrieved 14 March 2021.